Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Mademoiselle Therese," I said, "you are nothing less than a
monster."

She received that true expression of my opinion as though I had
given her a sweet of a particularly delicious kind. She liked to
be abused. It pleased her to be called names. I did let her have
that satisfaction to her heart's content. At last I stopped
because I could do no more, unless I got out of bed to beat her. I
have a vague notion that she would have liked that, too, but I
didn't try. After I had stopped she waited a little before she
raised her downcast eyes.